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MACHINE FOR BEADING LIOATION BIL SHEET METAL WARES.

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No. 748,982. PATENTED JAN. 5, 1904.- J. W. PATON & H. G. TAYLOR. MACHINEFOR BEADING SHEET METAL WARES.

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FIG- 6 UNITED STATES Patented January 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WALLACE BATON, OF SOUTHPORT, AND HENRY GEORGE TAYLOR,

' OF EGREMONT, ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR BEADING S HEET-METAL WARES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,982, dated January5, 1904.

Application filed April 18, 1903. erial No. 153,153. \No model.)

To all whom it Wwty concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES WALLACE PA- TON, residing in Southport, inthe county of Lancaster, and HENRY GEORGE TAYLOR, residing at Egremout,in the county of Chester,

England, subjects of the King of Great Britain, (whose full postaladdresses are 48 Scariebrick New Road, Southport, aforesaid, merchantand manufacturer, and 13 Buchanan |o Road, :Egremont, aforesaid, managerof tinbox works,) have invented certain new. and usefulImprovementsiuMachines for Beading Sheet-Metal Wares, (for which application has beenmade in Great Britain, No.2,680, [5 dated February 4, 1903,) of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention has for its object an'apparatus for beading, llanging,embossing, or recessing metal polish-boxes and other round articles andfor crimping on the tops and hottoms of round canisters and the like.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of ourmachine; Fig. 2, a plan; Fig. 3, a detail view of the feeding device;Fig. 4, a detail view of the cam device. Fig. 5 is a general View of theentire machine. Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views illustrating the deliverydevice, the former being a plan and the latter a sectional side view 0thereof.

Machines for beading metal polish, vaseline, ointment, and other boxeshave been constructed with a beading-mandrel to receive the boxes in ahorizontal position one 5 box ata time.

was put on by means of a foot-treadle, which was rather unsatisfactory,because the fit of the lid of the box depends to a very great extent onthe amount of pressure brought to 40 bear on the body of the box inraising the bead. If that pressure varies, the fit of the lid will varyalso, the result of whichis that some lids fit loose and others tight.

In our apparatus we provide a plate or disk A, mounted on a verticalshaft B, which is rotated by any suitable form of gear, such as C. Onthis disk A are mounted a number of rotary mandrels D, on which theboxes to be headed are placed, and over these there is a stationary topplate E, so that when the box is placed on the mandrel D it requires nothe boxes on the mandrel D.

The pressure to raise the head holding down, as it does with the oldmachine, upon which the box must be held or it would fall off. Thisfalling on is impossible with our apparatus, because the top plate Ekeeps Then, again, the old machine will do only one box at a time; butthe present apparatus has a number of these mandrels D placed all roundthe disk A at equal distances apart. They are each mounted on the headfof a hollow bolt F, which passes through a'hole I in the disk A,and arefastened underneath by means of a nut G, and as there is a shoulder H onthe .headfof the bolt F which engages a corresponding abutment on theinside of the mandrel D the mandrels are kept in position on the disk A.The holes I in the disk A are preferably made in the form of open slots,as indicated in Fig. 1, so that the mandrels can be adjusted toward oraway from the periphery of the disk. Each bolt is mounted in an eyebolt.T in this slot, and this eyebolt has a screw-threaded shank, with thenut thereon collared between fixed abutments, so that by turning saidnut oneway or the other the eyebolt with the mandrel on is slidlaterally either toward or away from the periphery of the disk. Justabove and outside the periphery of the revolving disk there is a Slzt-8o tionary steel ring L on the inside of the shell M of the machine,which is of circular form,

and on this is formed a depression m, corresponding to the bead don themandrel D. A-

box is placedon each mandrel D of the rotating disk A, and the mandrelsrevolving, as they must do when the boxes placed thereon, come incontact with and press against the stationary steel ring L, cause therequired bead to be raised on the box. The pressure of the box on themandrel against the statiouary steel ring is regulated by theadjustingrscrews K. These screws also act as a check to prevent themandrels running away from their work, and when once adj usted and 5properly checked up there is no fear of the pressure working off, andevery box will get the same amount of pressure, with the result that thediameter of the boxes will be all the same size when finished and thelid will fit too the same on every box.

In our apparatus we provide in the top plate E a segmental opening N fsuitable length to enable the boxes to be fed onto the mandrels as theyconsecutively present themselves at the opening N, and at another pointwe provide an opening 0 to enable the boxes that have been headed to bedelivered otf the mandrels. With the old machine after the box washeaded it had to' be knocked off by hand. With our apparatus, however,such is not the case. All the operatorhas to do is to feed the mandrelsby placing a box on each as they become exposed while passing under theopening N in the top plate. The boxes disappear in turn under the topplate E,which prevents them from lifting up while the head is beingraised, and when they arrive at the other opening 0 they are knocked offby the following device, comprising a pin P, fitted inside the hollowbolt F and having aheadp flush with the top of mandrel. This is keptdown by means of a spring Q on the under side of disk A, and on thebottom of the shell of the machine just inside the delivery-opening weprovide a stationary cam B. As the disk A revolves, therefore, thesepins P come consecutively against the cam R, which thus raises againstthe pres sure of the spring Q. This knocks the boxes upward off themandrels D. In Figs. 6 and 7 w is a laterally-disposed spring or elasticcushion against which each box abuts when it is pushed upward by thehead 19 of the pin P, as indicated by the dotted circle in Fig. 6. Theboxes are therefore raised through the delivery-opening (rin Fig. 6) bythe cam R acting on the rounded lower end of the pin P and are liftedoff from the mandrel D, so that they take up the position shown by thedotted circle in Fig. 6, before mentioned, and come into lateralcontactwith the spring to. This compresses said spring and then as soon as thepin P shall have passed the cam R and been drawn down by the spring Qthe box will be liberated and pushed laterally by the reaction of thespring 10 into the delivery-chute T.

U is the sloping feeding-chute by which boxes are fed to the opening Nof the machine. The lowest one V in the row rests in a sloping posit-ionby spring-clips in the path of the mandrel, so that the next succeedingmandrel enters the box and carries it forward underneath the top plate,the guide W forcing it down flat onto the mandrel. The next succeedingbox in the chute U takes its place and the operation is repeated. Incase different-sized boxes require to be headed the mandrel can beremoved and another mandrel with dilferent-sized head inserted in itsplace, the block that slides in the radial slots in the revolving diskbeing of course adjusted by means of the screw.

The invention is applicable for Hanging, embossing, or recessing metalpolish and other boxes, also for other round articles and forcrimping onthe tops and bottoms of round canisters and the like, besides beading.

We declare that what we claim is- 1. A machine forthe purposespecified,having a shell or frame, a rotating disk in said shell, saiddisk being provided with a plurality of upright rotating mandrels toreceive and carry the articles to be operated on, a topplate on the saidshell and covering the rotating disk, said plate fitting down quiteclosely to the articles on the mandrels so as to keep them in place, andsaid plate having in it at one point an aperture for feeding in thearticles to the mandrels and at another point an aperture for thedelivery of the articles after they shall have been operated on, meansfor feeding in one article at a time at the feeding-aperture, means forforcing the articles down upon the respective mandrels, and means,coacting with the mandrels, for operating on the articles carried by thelatter.

2. A machine for the purpose specified,having a rotating disk, aplurality of upright, hollow bolts secured in the said disk, inandrelsto receive the articles to be operated on, mounted rotatively one oneach of the said bolts, a beaded pin slid-able in each of said bolts,the head of said pin occupying, normally, a recess in the upper end ofsaid bolt, springs which draw down the respective bolts, and astationary cam in the path of the lower ends of said pins, whereby asthe disk rotates the said pins are pushed upward successively by saidcam for lifting the articles off from their mandrels.

3. A machine forthe purpose specified,having a rotating disk, rotatablemandrels carried on the upper side of said disk, said mandrels toreceive the articles to be operated on, a stationary plate over saidmandrels to keep the articles in place on the mandrels, said platehaving in it a feeding-aperture and a delivery-aperture, means forlifting the article olf from the mandrel at the deliveryaperture, adelivery-chute, and means for displacing the lifted articlelaterallyinto the delivery-chute.

In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names, this 31st day ofMarch, 190-5, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES WALLACE PATON. HENRY GEORGE TAYLOR. Witnesses:

.G. O. DYMOND, ALBERT O. B. HENRI.

